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We women in Somalia are trying to be leaders in our community.

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The long-term solution in preventing another famine in Somalia is to promote self-reliance.

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At night I dream about going to where I played when I was still young.

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I don't recognize my people anymore. I feel Somalia is lost. There is no Somalia. It is just a name.

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I have big hope for the Canadian government to help Somalia with something concrete and tangible. I haven't seen that.

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Women can build stability. We can make peace.

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When I decided to become a doctor, I was very, very young, when my mother, her seventh child, became pregnant, and she was feeling terrible pain, and I could not know how to help her. And my mother died in front of my eyes, without knowing why, which diagnosis. So I decided to be a doctor.

~Hawa Abdi

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Biography

Nationality: Somali

Type: Activist

Born: May 17th, 1947

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